DSHR's Blog: Hard Disk Unexpectedly Not Dead
As I read Zak Killian's Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hikes, t...| blog.dshr.org
The economics of long-term data storage are critically dependent not just upon the Kryder rate, the rate at which the technology improves cost per byte, but also upon the reliability of the media over time. You want to replace media because they are no longer economic, not because they are no longer reliable despite still being economic.| DSHR's Blog
As I read Zak Killian's Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hikes, t...| blog.dshr.org
Seven years ago I posted Optical Media Durability and discovered:| DSHR's Blog
The Register is running a series on The State Of Storage. Below the fold I flag some articles worth reading.| DSHR's Blog
At the Spring 2025 Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, Vicky and I received the Paul Evan Peters Award.| DSHR's Blog
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...| blog.dshr.org
